In your bathtub or wherever you can find room, scrub the panels down with the dish detergent and the absolute hottest water your hands can stand. After you've scrubbed it with the detergent, rinse it off with HOT water. Spray the panels down with the ammoniated window cleaner, and scrub again. Finally, rinse the window cleaner off with hot water. Towel the panel dry with a clean, delinted terry towel.

Set the panel that you're painting up on newspaper, a dropcloth, or something similar to help keep dust down, and control where the overspray goes.

Wipe the panel down with tackcloth immediately before you begin painting...

Begin by spraying a thin coat of the SEM #3936 or #3986 over the panel. Let this dry for about 15 minutes.

wipe the piece down with tack cloth

Then, spray several thin coats of your color over it until you get good even coverage. Let it dry for about an hour.

After the color is dry, and looks good and even (you can keep recoating the color until it does look even), you can spray out a couple of good coats of your clear, again, working to make the coats as even as possible.

Let the clear coat dry for at least 12 hours before you try to put them back into the car.

After the panels have dried, you can carefully put them back into the car. Make sure that you are VERY careful with them, as they are most prone to scratching during the first 30 days after they're painted, and if they get scratched, you have to start all over again.

Wait at least 7 days after reinstallation before you use any kind of interior polish on them.

After a week, use whatever interior polish you prefer to moisturize and protect the panels. (I use Meguiar's Natural Shine)

^ looks great, but honestly, how fragile is the paint on the center dash? because I've seen lots of painted dashes where you can't even adjust the temp. for fear of scratching the paint with your fingernail

^ looks great, but honestly, how fragile is the paint on the center dash? because I've seen lots of painted dashes where you can't even adjust the temp. for fear of scratching the paint with your fingernail

I accidentally hit my center console with the tip of a screwdriver.. really hard. There isn't even a mark. If their paint is scratching off like that, either their paint is bad, or they didn't prime it or use some kind of adhesion promoter... and that's just asking for trouble. If the paint job is done well, it will be just as durable as the plastic underneath.

wow..awesome guides..very simple and you don't have to use a lot of sand paper to sand everything down..There's another guide from someone else on here but it's long as heck..very very detailed but you need to buy like 3-4 diff..kind of grid sand paper and cloth and such..i like ur betta..short, simple, and effective..Great job..

Originally Posted by pesho01

Question:Whenever my car is at a full stop or even in park the RPM never sits on 0. what does this mean?

wow..awesome guides..very simple and you don't have to use a lot of sand paper to sand everything down..There's another guide from someone else on here but it's long as heck..very very detailed but you need to buy like 3-4 diff..kind of grid sand paper and cloth and such..i like ur betta..short, simple, and effective..Great job..

Um.. yeah... that other guide was also by me... that's the one you want to use if you're going for a high gloss, glass smooth paint job on pieces like your center console and gauge bezel.

oh ok..oops.. ..well i guess i'll just use that then..i thought i saved that thread but now i can't find it..u have the link for it?? could you PM me with the link so i'll have it in there until i decide to paint my console???

thanks

Originally Posted by pesho01

Question:Whenever my car is at a full stop or even in park the RPM never sits on 0. what does this mean?

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